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Román Cortés is having a lot of fun with CSS tricks these days. He just built an example rolling CSS coke can that uses background-attachment, background-position, and a few other tricks to get the effect. No fancy CSS3 needed here! The key pieces used: < View plain text > css p { background-image: Read the rest…

At Google I/O the team showed a demo of YouTube running video right in the browser, instead of in the rectangle of Flash. Now, that URL takes you to the beta, which you can opt-in too. I am torn on what to write on this showcase though…. so, especially since it is Friday, here are Read the rest…

David Davis of Ext doesn’t just have a cool name. He does cool stuff :) His latest post explains a showcase of melding HTML5 video and canvas support as he creates a live video tooltip. The example uses Ext JS web desktop and the code created delivers a special Panel that is able to deliver Read the rest…

We knew that we needed VCS support for Bespin. We also knew that we wanted to have support that is richer than just having command line access. Since we are in a rich UI environment we can do more, and one of the features I was excited to play with was diff visualization. Well, the Read the rest…

Phil Rabin of CBC Radio 3 has kindly written a guest post on his experience creating a fantastic Web interface for the station that uses Flash for audio, but a full HTML experience that maintains state from page to page. CBC Radio 3 is a community, radio station and user-generated independent music library which is Read the rest…

Aaron Miller and his team have released BookGlutton an online bookstore and social network meant to facilitate social reading. It features a Dojo-driven e-book reading app with chat and annotation, and the store now offers over 500 O’Reilly titles for sale. The site is built using Dojo and PHP and features pagination, real-time chat, group Read the rest…

The CSS Ninja has created a Font Dragr drag and drop font tester: Font dragr is an experimental web app that uses HTML5 & CSS3 to create a useful standalone web based application for testing custom fonts, once you visit it for the first time you don’t need to be online to use it after Read the rest…

Atlassian has created a new JIRA Interactive Tour that walks you through the application, live. We have seen a couple of these before, and this one is really cool. It is one thing watching a screencast of an application that you want to learn, but having an assistant that helps you inside the live app Read the rest…

Apple has a fair amount of video on their site, and now you will find it displayed via <video> As always, it looks very nice indeed. The video controls look very much like the new Quicktime X: All via the code: Of course, for all the deets on video, check out brother Mark.

Aaron Newton of MooTools fame is now at Cloudera, the awesome Hadoop startup, and has posted about the rich Cloudera Desktop project he has been working on. In the post he discusses the implementation and how it uses new features in the new MooTools 1.2.4 release such as: MooTools Depender MooTools ships with a dependency Read the rest…

As soon as we developed Bespin we wanted a world where we could create an application in the editor and see it live… and then edit it all live too! Server-side JS makes this quite possible. Clamato is experimenting in this way too, albeit slightly differently: Clamato is a Smalltalk dialect that is designed to Read the rest…

We posted on the audio + processing Twitter visualization this week, and today we have a new one. Luis Abreu and Quodis Labs have created a jQuery DOM based visualization, Tori’s Eye. It’s a twitter visualization animated with jQuery, fetches search rss results( has a default keyword, user can change ), and for each result Read the rest…

Sebastian Deutsch has a nice new experiment that uses HTML5 audio + Processing (which uses Canvas) to visualize Twitter streams sync’d to music. In their words: We’ve created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one Read the rest…

Chris Vanrensburg has created a curve explorer that gives you a nice visualization of curve functions which are used for animations (easing and the like). Chris has more: I looked at the work of Robert Penner, since it seems to have become the gold standard for motion curves. Nice stuff, and it inspired me. I Read the rest…